This month is critical, and I'll tell you why.

As John Bolton's nomination as US ambassador to the UN goes to the floor of the Senate for and up or down vote, I am not sure that many people realize how crucial the next few weeks will be. I always look at how the opposition is acting to judge how important an issue is to them. The Senate democrats have been in hyper active, hammer down, full speed obstruction over the issues of Bolton and judicial nominees. Why? The easy answer is they don't like republicans and they want to thwart their agenda whenever possible, but that it not the whole story.

Republican victories in the past two presidential elections as well as control in both houses of the legislature have given the democrats only a few places where they have influence and power. First is the judiciary. Liberal activism is the only stop-gap measure left to get around the will of the American people. Let’s say a state wants to keep marriage between a man and a woman, they hold an election where the referendum passes two to one and the people of that state think that's the end of it. Wrong. Somewhere in a courtroom high atop a shining building sits a judge that thinks that gay marriage is a right and is sure that if the founding fathers would have thought about just a little longer, they would have put gay marriage in the Constitution.

Their bad. The judge says, I will fix it. The pledge of allegiance has 'under God' in it? That is un-constitutional. Never mind that Senator Robert Byrd can drone on while reading the book of Esther in the King James Bible on the floor of the Senate.

The only other place where the Liberal Democrats seek to retain power is in world opinion. Namely the United Nations, the World Bank and the EU. The next few weeks could be the beginning of the end for what is left of the Democratic power structure. If the Oil for Food scandal indicts Kofi and he gets the boot, or a nice warm cell somewhere, John Bolton will have good campaigning weather to change the UN from a do-nothing waste of US taxpayer money to a world body that can effectively become a force for good on the planet.

Bill Frist has just thrown down the gauntlet. As soon as the Highway bill gets off the floor, the judicial nominees will be next on the Senate's agenda. If the republicans can hold together for the next few weeks, enough to return the Senate back to its history on judicial nominees and confirm Bolton nomination, it could be one of the most important months in this decade.